Definitions for chiliad

a group of 1000.

a period of 1000 years.

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Citations for chiliad

In 1811 Chernac's Cribrum Arithmeticum was published, to the great joy of Gauss, who states that, although he had not sufficient patience for a continuous enumeration of the whole million, he often employed unoccupied quarters of an hour in counting here and there a chiliad.J. W. L. Glaisher, "Preliminary account of an enumeration of the primes in Burckhardt's tables," Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, October 23 1876—May 17, 1880

It was a book no one had opened, as he believed, for a chiliad.Gene Wolfe, The Sword of the Lictor, 1982